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RyanFarley's avatar
RyanFarley
Contributor
15 years ago

Getting a list of recent messages via API

I am having some difficulty in getting a list of recent messages via the API.   I located a post in these forums that showed me the following URL: http://lithosphere.lithium.com/lithium/restapi/vc...
JakeR's avatar
JakeR
Khoros Oracle

You may have accidentally duped the threads that both work in your post.  When I click on the links, I have success on both.  Was one of them supposed to not work?

RyanFarley's avatar
RyanFarley
Contributor
15 years ago

Yeah, sorry. I did post the wrong link. I posted the link that works in *this* community, which is:

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/lithium/restapi/vc/posts/recent    <-this works here, but not on mine

 

If I use that same URL on my community it does not work (although the URL for recent threads does work). It does not appear to be a permissions issue from the response. The response gives a 501 error stating "Unknown path element at node 'community'."

 

This one does not work for me:

http://community.sagesaleslogix.com/slsl/restapi/vc/posts/recent

 

I am stuck :( Thanks for any help.

  • JakeR's avatar
    JakeR
    Khoros Oracle
    15 years ago

    Yeah, that is a bit odd.  I am an anonymous user and I can see this API response just fine:

     

    http://community.sagesaleslogix.com/slsl/restapi/vc/boards/id/hello

     

    So the good news is that we at least have a "dial tone".

     

    Now, when I try to get the latest messages from that board in particular, I am successful:

     

    http://community.sagesaleslogix.com/slsl/restapi/vc/boards/id/hello/messages/latest

     

    And when I go into the Community level and want to find out what the names of the categories are, I am successful:

     

    http://community.sagesaleslogix.com/slsl/restapi/vc/categories

     

    But you're right, when I try to get recent posts from the Category or Community level, I'm having trouble...

     

    I'll keep looking into this.  BTW, when is your upgrade to v9?

     

      • RyanFarley's avatar
        RyanFarley
        Contributor
        15 years ago

        Thanks for all the help Jake.

         

        The upgrade to v9 is out of my hands and unfortunately, I don't see it happening any time soon :(

         

        Basically what I need is to be able to retrieve any new posts "today" (or at least since a certain date/time). Do you have any ideas for how to get all posts since a certain date/time?

         

        Thanks again.

    • pooraju's avatar
      pooraju
      Contributor
      13 years ago

      Hi, 

       

      Is there any way to get latest message of a specified author ? I am able to get latest message using messages/latest but I need messages per author.

      I also tried with search/messages but in vein.

       

      Thanks in advance